Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with hydrocarbons for reliability.
We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts...
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.
When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.
Tribes have the potential to provide almost 15 percent of the country's electricity with wind power, and have 4.5 times the solar resources to power the entire U.S.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
